ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,119, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY (Zhejiang, China) and ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY ADVANCED ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT INNOVATION CENTER (Zhejiang, China).

"Direct locating method for calculating position of permanent magnet synchronous motor" was invented by Mengting Ye (Zhejiang, China), Yanfei Cao (Zhejiang, China), Zhichen Lin (Zhejiang, China), Zhiqiang Wang (Zhejiang, China), Tingna Shi (Zhejiang, China) and Changliang Xia (Zhejiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A direct locating method for calculating a position of a permanent magnet synchronous motor is provided. The direct locating method performed by a ...